A01=Carolyn S. Stevens
Author_Carolyn S. Stevens
Bon Odori
Category=JBFC
Category=JBSA
Category=JHM
Category=JKSN1
Central Yokohama
christian
Christian Housewives
Christian Volunteers
citizens
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Favor Bank
festival
Festival Committee Members
Graveside Visit
groups
housewives
Japanese Christianity
Japanese Christians
Japanese Welfare System
Kagawa Toyohiko
kanagawa
Kanagawa Prefecture
Livelihood Protection Law
marginalised populations research
Naka Ward
National Pension Program
Portable Shrine
prefecture
qualitative fieldwork Japan
Seikatsu Hogo
senior
social exclusion studies
South Korean Migrants
summer
Summer Festival
Uchimura Kanzo
urban poverty Japan
urban underclass volunteer interventions
volunteer
volunteerism in Asia
Welfare Law
welfare policy analysis
Welfare Town
World's Highest Life Expectancy
World’s Highest Life Expectancy
Yado
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415146487
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 27 Mar 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
The popular perception of Japanese society is that it possesses a homogeneity and cultural conformity unlike anything to be found in the West. In fact Japan has its own underclass living outside the mainstream in economic circumstances that are radically different to the more usual perception of a wealthy and sucessful society. Carolyn S. Stevens has produced a new study that intimately explores the lives of Japan's social outcasts as well as those volunteers who seek to help them and as a consequence become socially marginalized themselves.
Carolyn S. Stevens is Professor of Japanese Studies and Director of the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University, Australia.
